At noon the next day, when Tian Touch and Le Yi were discussing with the general's tent in the camp that they should cooperate with the Qin army in a few days, they suddenly heard a Qi sergeant report outside the tent: "Touch, someone from Yunchengjun has come to our military camp, and I hope to see you." ”

Hearing this, Tian Touch's color changed slightly, after all, among the coalition forces, he was most afraid of the Yuncheng Jun who had defeated him on the battlefield many times.

"Did he see something?" He asked Le Yi in a whispered in disbelief.

I have to say that in fact, Le Yi was also a little surprised in his heart, but after all, he was much calmer than Tian Yi, and after thinking about it for a while, he shook his head and said, "I don't think so." If he really sees through something, then he will definitely come and question you and me in person, instead of just sending people around him...... Tentacles, calm down, don't show your flaws. ”

"Uh-huh, you're right."

Tian Touch nodded, and after taking a few deep breaths to stabilize his mood, he instructed the soldiers outside the tent, "Please." ”

After a while, Qi led two young men in their twenties to the tent, only to see that after seeing Tian Touch and Le Yi, these two respectfully clasped their fists and saluted, and said: "Touch, Le Da Sima, in the next music loss, Xiang Song, is the guard next to Yun Chengjun, this time I sent a letter on the order of Yun Chengjun." ”

As he spoke, the man named Le Yi took out a small roll of bamboo slips from his arms and respectfully handed it to Tian Touch.

Tian Feng got up and took the bamboo slip, and immediately asked, "Two, do you have any other instructions from Yun Chengjun?" ”

Le Yi and Xiang Yue glanced at each other, and then shook their heads in unison and said, "No." ”

Seeing this, Tian Fu felt a little relieved, and immediately called the guards outside the tent and instructed with a smile: "You take these two down to rest, get some wine and food to satisfy their hunger, and remember not to slack off." ”

Of course, he knew that the two people who came to deliver the letter were the children of Mengyi, so he naturally would not slack off.

"Thank you, Tentacles...... Then, the two of us will take their leave. ”

After thanking him, he said goodbye to Xiang Song.

Tian Touch smiled and watched the two of them walk out of the tent, and immediately couldn't wait to spread out the bamboo slips in his hand, scanning the contents with some apprehension, until he saw Meng Zhong praising the battle between him and Le Yi against the Qin army a few days ago in the letter, he was relieved, and turned his head to Le Yi with a smile and said: "There is a false alarm, Yun Chengjun sent a letter, just to encourage the two of us. ”

"Oh?"

Le Yi got up and stepped forward, took Meng Zhong's letter from Tian Tentacle and read it carefully, but he didn't find anything abnormal.

He chuckled and said to Tian Touch, "Now the touch can be a little relieved." ”

Tian Touch nodded, and then said with a little emotion: "It seems that you are right, if I falsify in the battle report, it will make Fengyangjun, Yunchengjun and others suspicious......"

It turned out that when writing the battle report a few days ago, Tian Touch originally planned to exaggerate the results of the battle a little, such as exaggerating the battle losses of the two sides, or depicting it as if it was a draw, but Le Yi stopped him, on the grounds that it was an exaggeration of the battle record, which was easy to arouse the suspicion of Li Dui, Meng Zhong and others.

At that time, Tian Touch hesitated again and again, but finally listened to Le Yi's suggestion, honestly reported each other's battle losses, and did not dare to be cheeky to forcibly draw the Qin army on the opposite side in the battle report.

Unexpectedly, the result was unexpectedly good, yesterday evening Fengyang Jun Li Dui sent someone to commend him, and today, they received a letter from Yuncheng Jun Mengzhong, and the content of the letter was also praising them.

Although this is a good thing, Tian Touch always felt a little weird: it was obviously a slightly inferior result, but Li Dui, Meng Zhong, and Storm Kite were very satisfied, didn't anyone expect him to defeat the Qin army on the other side? How can he Tian Touch say that he is also the leader of the young and strong generals of the Qi State, should you look down on him so much?

After thinking about it, Tian Touch finally attributed the matter to Li Dui, Meng Zhong, and Storm Kite, who were still suspicious of him, rather than questioning his talent.

But in fact, Li Dui, Meng Zhong, and Storm Kite really didn't expect him to defeat the Qin army on the other side.

Li Dui and Storm Kite don't talk about it, these two purely hold the idea of hoping that the Qi Yan coalition and the Qin army will be defeated; And Meng Zhong, what he is looking forward to is actually Le Yi, not Tian Touch - it is undeniable that Tian Touch is a good general, but considering that the opponent is Bai Qi of the Qin State, Meng Zhong really has no hope.

After the boulder in his heart fell, Tian Touch naturally regained his usual calm, only to see him say to Le Yi after thinking for a moment: "Yun Chengjun hopes that you and I will increase our efforts to exert pressure on the Qin army...... It seems that I still have some doubts about you and me. ”

"Hmm."

Le Yi nodded nonchalantly, pondering the reason given by Meng Zhong in the letter.

His intuition told him that Meng Zhong's reason was strange.

You must know that taking the current situation as an example, Meng Zhong could not open the situation in front of Hangu Pass at all, even if he captured Hangu Pass, he would not be able to break through Hangu Road, and he could not really attack the territory of Qin, and the offensive route that could really pose a huge threat to Qin was the side of Menshui Qin Camp - as long as he could capture Menshui Qin Camp and cross Menshui, the coalition army could bypass Hangu Pass, which was known as the first Xiongguan in the world, and attack directly towards Xianyang, the royal capital of Qin.

In this case, Meng Zhong in front of Hangu Pass should cooperate with their side, for example, to storm Hangu Pass and attract the attention of the Qin army, so that he and Tian Touch can raid the Menshui Qin camp.

But the strange thing is that Meng Zhong wants to go to Tian Touch here to increase pressure on the Menshui Qin camp, which seems to have a kind of opposite meaning in Le Yi's opinion.

"Could it be that Ah Zhong already has a way to break through the Hangu Pass?"

Le Yi was also quite confused by this.

After some discussion, Tian wrote a reply letter to Meng Zhong, putting aside some politeness, mainly to show Meng Zhong that he would be able to use his heart against the Qin army again as soon as possible.

As for how many days after this "as soon as possible", Tian Touch also listed various difficulties in the letter, such as the fact that the main camp has not yet been established, and the Qin army on the opposite side is heavily garrisoned, etc., in short, he purely wants to delay time.

After all, in his and Le Yi's opinion, Meng Zhong, who was in front of Hangu Pass at the moment, in addition to being able to deter the Qin army in the pass, was actually difficult to break the current deadlock, unless Meng Zhong had a way to break through Hangu Dao.

In this case, the progress of the Five Nations Alliance's crusade against the Qin State depends on the progress of their Qiyan Alliance's attack on the Menshui Qin Battalion, and they deliberately slow down the offensive, which will naturally delay the footsteps of the Three Jin Alliance, so that the war between the Three Jin Alliance and the Qin State will fall into a long-term stalemate.

This is of great benefit to the country of Qi.

That night, the Qi Yan coalition army was attacked by the Menshui Qin army.

At first, Tian Feng was extremely shocked in his heart, thinking that he had fallen for nothing, but then Le Yi, who joined him, calmly told him that the Qin army actually didn't really want to sneak attack their camp, otherwise, how could he deliberately make such a loud noise to attract the attention of the Qiyan coalition forces in the vicinity?

"What do you mean......"

"The Qin army should be helping you and me to deceive the Three Jin Alliance. Thinking about it, our army is stationed here, and it stands to reason that it must be a thorn in the side of the Qin army, but so far the Qin army has never tried to sneak attack our army, isn't it strange? ”

"That's ...... too"

Before Tian Touch and Le Yi could finish their discussion, they heard the shouts of killing from the mountain up and down the mountain disappearing like a receding tide, obviously the Qin army had retreated.

Seeing this, Tian Touch's doubts suddenly disappeared, and he said jokingly: "The Qin general on the other side is quite meticulous in his work......

Is it thorough?

Meticulous indeed!

Even the deliberate night attack was taken into account, and the Qin army on the other side gave Le Yi the feeling that it was like his brother Meng Zhong, who was equally thoughtful and meticulous.

"It should be the white order...... Although Ah Zhong defeated this person twice, he still repeatedly told me that this person must not be underestimated, so it can be seen that Bai Qi's strategy is not under Ah Zhong......

Le Yi thought secretly in his heart.

The question is, after nearly 20 days, he "remembered" the night attack on the main camp of his Qiyan coalition army, didn't he think it was a little late?

But after thinking about it, Le Yi understood Bai Qi's "difficulty", after all, before the Qin army and his Qiyan coalition launched the tacit battle a few days ago, Tian Touch and he were both suspicious of Bai Qi, in this case, how dare Bai Qi deliberately launch a night attack? What should I do if he and Tian Touch misunderstand because of this?

And now, due to the tacit confrontation two days ago, the two sides have established initial trust, so Bai Qi dared to send people to create a failed night attack, and in disguise, he and the two armies of Qi and Yan gained the trust of the Sanjin coalition army.

It's better to make amends than to do nothing.

Le Yi felt that Bai Qi on the other side probably meant this.

In the days that followed, the Qi-Yan coalition continued to build camps to consolidate their defenses.

During this period, the Qin army would also come to sneak attack from time to time, sometimes every one or two days, sometimes every two or three days, and there was no law at all, but because every time before launching a surprise attack, this Qin army would deliberately make a huge shouting and killing sound, and deliberately let the Qi Yan coalition army know, so even if Tian Touch and Le Yi did not come forward in person, the generals under their accounts could also repel the invading Qin army without danger and hold the main camp steadily.

In this way, about half a month passed, that is, around July 15, in view of the fact that Tian Touch and Le Yi had not made progress after the first engagement with the Qin army, Li Dui and Meng Zhong wrote many letters urging him, which made Tian Touch realize that his Qiyan coalition army had to join forces with the opposite Qin army again to play a scene to deal with the side of the Sanjin coalition army.

So, he wrote a battle letter to Wei Yuan, the commander of the Shuiqin camp on the opposite side, and agreed to fight each other on the battlefield last time.

Although this war letter is indeed full of the meaning of provoking the Qin army from the reading lines, and it will not fall into the hands of people with intentions and become a handle, Wei Yuan knows very well the true meaning of this war letter: it is nothing more than Tian Touch's appointment to him to play a scene again.

So, at daylight on July 17, the Qi-Yan coalition and the Qin army fought again.

In order to win the trust of the Sanjin coalition army, Tian Touch invested about 30,000 Qi Yan coalition troops this time, and the Qin generals on the opposite side invested about 20,000 troops, which totaled 50,000 troops.

However, the battle damage in this battle is not up to the level of the decisive battle, the casualties of the Qi and Yan coalition forces before and after are only about 3,000 people, even Tian Touch and Le Yi feel a little unreasonable, so that Tian Touch exaggerated the number of battle losses when writing the battle report, and lied about 5,000 people - 8,000 battle losses in a battle, this figure is still reasonable.

As for the victory or defeat, it is still portrayed as a slight inferiority, after all, few people will believe that the Qi-Yan coalition army can defeat the Qin army with similar forces.

After writing the battle report, Tian Touch sent someone to the main camp of the coalition army in the gorge and handed it over to Fengyang Jun Li Dui and Storm Kite.

And Li Dui and Storm Kite also copied a letter and sent it to Wei Ying in Daozhong and sent it to Meng Zhong.

After a full eighteen days, Meng Zhong once again received a battle report from Tian Touch.

I have to say that the battle report sent by Tian Touch this time is still very true at first glance, after all, it records in detail all the scale of battles between the Qin army and the Qiyan coalition army since the beginning of July.

Not to mention the examples of the Qin army's sneak attack on the main camp of the Qiyan coalition army, which were recorded one by one, the battle report also recorded the deeds of the Qiyan coalition army's sneak attack on the Menshui Qin camp in turn.

There were two cases in total, one on the fourth day of July and one on July 12.

These detailed battle examples make this battle report look very real and fulfilling, and ordinary people will hardly suspect it.

But when Meng Zhong saw these examples, he didn't have the slightest smile on his face.

And at this moment, Le Jin walked in, saw Meng Zhong holding a bamboo book and reading, and thought Meng Zhong was reading, and joked with a smile: "You are really diligent and studious, and you can still have the idea of reading on the front line of the battlefield, you are really ...... What to see? The Book of War? ”

"No, I'm reading the battle report sent by Tian Touch." Meng Zhong explained, and then asked, "Why are you here, how is the siege equipment built?" ”

"Youying should keep an eye on it for me." Le Jin explained casually, and immediately took the battle report from Meng Zhong's hand, and muttered while looking at it: "Let me see, let me see...... Hmm, yo? It looks pretty good, and it's going back and forth......"

"Fake."

Meng Zhong said lightly, and immediately poured a bowl of water from the clay pot on the side, and then placed the bowl of water on the side of the low table near Le Jin.

"Fake?" Le Jin was stunned, looked at the battle report in his hand, and then looked at Meng Zhong, and asked puzzledly: "You mean, Tian Touch's battle report is fake?" ”

"Nope." Meng Zhong shook his head and said: "The battle recorded above should be true, Tian Touch will not dare to deceive Fengyang Jun, the tyrant, and us out of nothing, it's just ......"

As he spoke, he pointed to the battle report in Le Jin's hand, and said lightly: "One hundred thousand Qi Yan coalition troops went to attack the Menshui Qin camp, and Bai Qi will definitely go to that Qin camp in person after learning about it, but if you look at the two battle reports sent by Tian Ji, although the Qin army and the Qi Yan coalition army have fought a lot of times, can you see what role Bai Qi played in this?" ”

As he spoke, he picked up a battle report from the corner of the low table and threw it to Lejin.

“……”

Le Jin carefully compared the two battle reports before and after Tian Touch, looked at it, and his brows gradually furrowed.

Just like Meng Zhong said, when the 100,000 Qi Yan coalition army invaded the territory, it was impossible for Bai Qi not to personally go to the Menshui Qin camp to check what was going on, and since Bai Qi personally arrived at the Menshui Qin camp, he would inevitably come up with some strategies to target the 100,000 Qi Yan coalition army.

But in Tian Touch's two battle reports, the battle between the Qin army and the Qi Yan army is simply swallowing warm water, please, this time the commander of the Qin army on the opposite side is Bai Qi, not Xiang Shou, how can this kind of battle of swallowing warm water be fought in vain?

How to say it, the war commanded by Bai Qi should be more radical, such as deliberately exposing flaws and letting the Qi-Yan coalition army attack the Menshui Qin camp, and then take the opportunity to send surprise soldiers to set fire to the hills where the Qi-Yan coalition army established a camp, cut off the retreat of the Qi-Yan coalition army, and then besiege the troubled Qi-Yan coalition army from all directions.

Let's not talk about whether such tactics can inflict heavy damage on the Qiyan coalition army, but it is indeed in line with Bai Qi's art of war.

"Indeed...... Not quite right. ”

Restraining the smile on his face, Le Jin compared the two battle reports and said with a solemn expression.

Hearing this, Meng Zhong let out a long breath and said in a deep voice: "The last time I received Tian Fu's battle report, I didn't dare to conclude it, but this time I have a rough grasp. Tian Touch & ...... Tian Touch should have made some agreement with Qin Jun in private, and the two sides pretended to fight a few battles with a tacit understanding. …… This time the Five Kingdoms invaded Qin, the Qi State was originally unwilling and unwilling, and a while ago, the Qi army led by Tian Touch was always hiding behind and refused to fight, presumably Bai Qi saw that our coalition army was not in line with his thoughts, so he tried to contact Tian Touch......"

"Are you saying that Tian Touch turned his back on the coalition forces and made a private agreement with the Qin army?" Le Jin asked in surprise when he heard this.

You know, as the so-called open guns are easy to dodge and dark arrows are difficult to prevent, most of the time internal traitors are more threatening than external enemies, the most typical example is the battle between Ying Ji and Tian Zhang, the famous general Tian Zhang, wasn't he pitted by the Song army who secretly reached an agreement with the Qin army, so that he finally lost in the hands of Ying Ji, becoming the only defeat in Tian Zhang's life?

If it weren't for Song Jun, although Tian Zhang might not be able to defeat Yingji, he would definitely not end up in a fiasco.

Meng Zhong thought for a while and said, "It shouldn't be enough to turn your back on the coalition army and turn against the Qin army." …… Tian Touch shouldn't be so bold. However, it is possible to reach a tacit agreement with Bai Qi not to invade each other......"

"That's a serious matter, too." Le Jin said with a serious expression: "If this matter is true, then we must not turn a blind eye, Ah Zhong, you should immediately notify Li Dui and let Li Dui send someone to ......"

"What to do? Debunking Tian Touch? Meng Zhong shook his head and said, "It doesn't make sense. …… We have no evidence, Tian Touch can completely deny it, even if he really questioned Tian Touch was speechless, tearing each other's faces, he was annoyed and ashamed and retreated, what do you do with him? Could it be that my Sanjin coalition army will fight with Qi Yan's two armies first? Not to mention Li Dui and the tyrant marshal, even if it was me, I would not dare to start a civil war within our coalition army under my white nose. Thinking about the final result, it is nothing more than that the two armies of Qi and Yan have explicitly withdrawn from the ranks of the crusade against Qin...... What's in it for the big picture? The withdrawal of the Qi and Yan armies from the coalition army will inevitably cause great damage to the morale of our coalition army, and the Qin army believes that the morale of the army will be greatly boosted......"

Le Jin nodded thoughtfully, then frowned and asked, "Then what should I do?" If Tian Touch really reached an agreement with the Qin army, I think even if he was given a year, he would not be able to defeat the Qin camp...... He will only prevaricate with various reasons. ”

"It doesn't matter."

Meng Zhong pondered for a moment, then raised his head and said, "Since Tian Touch 'thinks' that the Gate Water Qin camp is difficult to capture, then I will fight it down for him, and he can't return it to the Qin army on the other side, right?" There is no need to completely tear your face for this. 100,000 Qi Yan coalition troops, even if they are just used to wave the flag and cheer, this momentum is also a big help. Keep it, it will always be useful. ……”

"Are you sure to capture the Menshui Qin camp?" Lejin asked in surprise.

Hearing this, Meng Zhong smiled and said with a strange expression: "In fact, this time it should be regarded as being smart in vain but being mistaken by being smart...... Originally, I was not sure to capture the Menshui Qin camp, but now, I am sure. …… Come and invite Dou Xing and Wei Qing to come, and say that I have something important to discuss. ”

"Whoa!" The guards who had entered the tent bowed and retreated.

Looking at Meng Zhong's calm face, Le Jin frowned and thought for a moment, and then, as if he had guessed something, a strange smile appeared on his face, and he laughed hehehe.